Quilting-frame



(No Model.)

B. W. RAINE'S. QUILTING FRAME.

N0. 4'Z2,972. Patented Mar. 11, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BURRESS WESLEY RAINES, OF FULBRIGHT, TEXAS.

QUILTING-FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Batent No. 422,972, dated March 11, 1890.

Application filed June 15, 1889! Serial No. 314,388. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BURRESS WESLEY RAINES, a citizen of the United States, residing at. Fulbright, in the county of Red River and State of Texas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Quilting-Frames, of

track-bar B, having the brackets C C at its ends on the front side.

The suspensiomwire D is stretched between the outer ends of the brackets G G and passes around in rear of the track-bar. The wire is continuous and a movable block E is arranged between the rear port-ion cl of the wire and the rear side of the track-bar. To tighten the suspension-wire, slide the said block toward one end of the track-bar.

F represents a carrier-bar, provided at its ends with drums or rollers f f, on which are wound the upper ends of suspending-cords G G, which are attached at their lower ends to the quilting-frame H, of the, ordinary or any preferred construction.

The carrier-bar is provided on its upper side with eyes I I, which are engaged with hooks K K on the lower ends of the pulleyblocks L L, the said blocks being provided sume positions at an angle to the track-bar, thereby enabling the quilting-fran1e to be placed in any desired position to forms line of stitching in any desired position.

The brackets at the ends of the suspension-wire form stops to prevent the pulleys from leaving the wire and dismounting the carrier-bar.

Having thus described my invention, I claim-- The combination of the track-bar having the brackets C O on its ends the continuous suspension-wire extending between the extremities of the said brackets and extending longitudinally in the rear of the track-bar, the movable block E, inserted between the rear portion of the suspension-wire and the rear side of the track-barfthe pulleys mounted on the suspension-wire, and the carrier-bar carrying the quilting-frame and connected to the said pulleys, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

BURRESS XVESLEY RAINES.

Witnesses:

T. B. CALDWELL, J. A. McGee; 

